Quarry Bends (Clarks Quarry; – "Enclosure of the Old Curragh Road")<ref>Place Names of The Isle of Man – Da Ny Manninee Dooie Volume Two. Sheading of Michael: (Kirk Michael, Ballaugh and Jurby) page 143 'Ballaugh by George Broderick – Türbingen ; Niemeyer NE:HST (1995) Manx Place- Name Survey, Max Niemeyer Verlag Türbingen (Gesamtwerk) 3-484-40130-3 (Band 2) Druck und Eiband: Weihert-Druck GmbH Darmstadt. </ref> is situated adjacent to the 20th Milestone road-side marker on the primary A3 Castletown to Ramsey, in the parishes of Ballaugh and Kirk Christ Lezayre in the Isle of Man. Location Quarry Bends is the site of the Curraghs Wildlife Park and also the nearby Gob-y-Volley Forestry Plantation and the former Isle of Man Forestry Board, Close-e-Volley Depot and the nearby Ballavolley Quarry. The wetland enclosures at Close-e-Volley and Ballavolley are part of the Ballaugh Curragh (Norse: Mirescog – Mire of the Turbary) of 1,000 acres (405 ha) in area. A3 Castletown to Ramsey Road The primary A3 road was part of "the long round," the former journey made by horse-drawn carriers from Castletown to Ramsey. The Ballaugh and Lezayre parish sections of the Ramsey old road before the draining of the remains of the post-glacial Lake Andreas'' (c.1500–1600) and the building of the Sulby Straight (c.1815), was the A13 Sandygate Road adjacent to the boundary of the Curragh's wetland along with the tertiary U7 Old Sulby Road, C29 Old Windmill Road and the B9 Ballacrye Road. Curragh wildlife park The Curragh's () were traditionally a wetlands area for growing hay for grazing including attempts in the 1930s to grow New Zealand flax (Phormium tenax and Phormium colensoi). The wetlands area was purchased in 1963 by the Isle of Man Forestry, Lands and Mines Board and the Curraghs Wildlife Park of 211 Acres (85 ha) at Quarry Bends and was opened by the Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man, Sir Ronald Garvey on 23 July 1965. The Curragh's Wildlife Park is now part of the Isle of Man Department of Enterprise and the Wildlife Park includes from 1992 The Orchid Line, a multi-gauge miniature railway of 1,750 feet in length operated by the Manx Model Engineering Society. Former railway-line In 1879, the Manx Northern Railway built a narrow gauge railway from St.John's to Ramsey which ran parallel to the A3 road from Kirk Michael to Sulby Bridge. The railway line crossed a number of minor roads